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Pets Lotto

Lotto Game
1920 - 1925 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design: lithographed paper and card; large cards show a scene with 9 hexagonals cut out; in each cut out is a number and a moral phrase; the numbers are at random and bear no relationship to the phrases
No. of cards: 4
No. illustrated: all


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 41 parts.

  • Lotto
  • Lotto
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  • Lotto
  • Lotto
  • Lotto
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Titles
  • Pets Lotto (manufacturer's title)
  • british manufacture no. 827 (manufacturer's title)
Brief description
Boxed game of Pet's Lotto made in England in the 1920s
Physical description
Design: lithographed paper and card; large cards show a scene with 9 hexagonals cut out; in each cut out is a number and a moral phrase; the numbers are at random and bear no relationship to the phrases
No. of cards: 4
No. illustrated: all
DimensionsSize: box-13¼in x 8½in x 1in
Production typeMass produced
Object history
The game has two aims, the first to correctly fit the pieces into the large pictures by solving the multiplication question and the second to say and understand the phrase or saying, such as Patience is a Virtue.
Historical context
No. of Players: 4
Equipment required: 4 large cards
36 small cards to fit the hexagonal cut outs, some are hand made
instructions
box

Rules:
The box with a hinged lid is covered with red paper; both sides of the lid have the same illustration showing a girl in a yellow dress playing with the game together with the title. It states that there should be rules, however, these are missing. The base is divided into a large square central compartment to house the cards, flanked by 6 small compartments to house the discs.
The illustrations on the large cards show:-
a seaside scene with a boy and girl
a girl with a basket
a train locomotive
a seaside scene with donkeys
The discs show the appropriate part of the picture on one side and on the other side a multiplication question, printed in red.
Production
Possibly Chad Valley
Collection
Accession number
MISC.864:1-41-1991

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Record createdMarch 4, 2000
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